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Capt. Spaulding: Which moderator was so foolish as to put a Star Wars post in the Main Feed? Let this be a lesson to you! It has unleashed the teenager within a cohort of middle-aged men! · Aug 31 at 6:50pm

Don't be such a chauvinist, Captain. It's unleashed the teenager within some middle-aged women, too! ;-)

Oh, yeah. Congrats on your first bump to the Main Feed, "Dave". It is the first, right?

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Is he supposed to yell "NOOOOOO!" after he throws the emperor down the shaft, or as he's grabbing the emperor? The latter case would make more sense, but either would diminish Vader, and reduce the intensity of the scene.

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For me, Lucas can play with his movies all he wants, so long as he allows us to be able to purchase the originals. It's kind of like if da Vinci decided that the Mona Lisa would be better if she was painted with a mustache. Hey, that's great, but I'll take the original, thank-you very much.

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I love Episode 4 and 5, and I'll take the battle sequence at the end of 2, but really, the entire story was ruined by A) Lucas' decision to make the entire story about Vader, and B) his inability to tell it. Little things like that ruin a six-movie series. Hey, it's great that Dark Father decides to throw his boss down the well, and even though he was content to assist Wrinklepuss kill billions of people, it's nice that he found a reason to do the right thing. But he ends up in blue sparkly Jedi Valhalla for that? He gets to hang out with the good guys in the afterlife? It's like a 12-hour biography of Hitler where he gets exonerated at the end because he made an honest woman of Eva and was nice to his dog. Feh.

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Sisyphus

Capt. Spaulding: Which moderator was so foolish as to put a Star Wars post in the Main Feed? Let this be a lesson to you! It has unleashed the teenager within a cohort of middle-aged men! · _{Aug 31 at 6:50pm}

Say, aren't you the African explorer? · _{Aug 31 at 6:54pm}

Well, I have shot an elephant in my pajamas.

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But James, it wasn't him all that time, it was the dark side of the force working through him. Anakin Skywalker: Sock Puppet! [queue water music from the Exorcist]

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Capt. Spaulding: Which moderator was so foolish as to put a Star Wars post in the Main Feed? Let this be a lesson to you! It has unleashed the teenager within a cohort of middle-aged men! · _{Aug 31 at 6:50pm}

Say, aren't you the African explorer? · _{Aug 31 at 6:54pm}

Well, I have shot an elephant in my pajamas. · _{Aug 31 at 8:48pm}

What was an elephant doing in your pajamas?

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Sisyphus

Say, aren't you the African explorer?

Well, I have shot an elephant in my pajamas.

I'm fairly certain I'm the youngest person on Earth who understands that reference. Duck Soup is actually part of my DVD collection, alongside the complete Star Wars series.

Don't expect me to keep up with a Dennis Miller rant, though. I can handle one allusion per half-hour.

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Western Chauvinist: I wouldn't mind if Lucas re-shot all the dialogue scene of the first three (as in the most recent three) with real actors. And real dialogue.

I wouldn't mind if the last 4 movies in the series got remade with a director who knew how to pick a better writer and knew how to direct actors. For crying out loud! Some of those were top notch actors he turned into anime characters!

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Sisyphus

Say, aren't you the African explorer?

Well, I have shot an elephant in my pajamas.

I'm fairly certain I'm the youngest person on Earth who understands that reference. Duck Soup is actually part of my DVD collection, alongside the complete Star Wars series.

Don't expect me to keep up with a Dennis Miller rant, though. I can handle one allusion per half-hour. · _{Aug 31 at 9:06pm}

I saw Miller once at a local comedy club. I was always laughing at his jokes about 2 minutes after the punch line... Or I was turning to my husband asking him what on earth was so funny.

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He should have brought Irvin Kershner back to direct episodes 1-3.

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Have we really gone 31 replies without a single reference to the epoch-defining Harry S Plinkett reviews of the Star Wars prequels? A damn disgrace, people. Do better.

Though naturally, they contain content. Also, they contain language. So best not link. Just youtube search for phantom menace review plinkett.

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Anybody wanna pizza roll?

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CandE: Anybody wanna pizza roll? · _{Sep 1 at 6:02am}

Send me an email if you want a pizza roll...

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Roberto: Well a bit older and perhaps even wiser I can be more philosophical, also of course I have my untainted DVD's. He cannot harm me, I am beyond the reach of his digital hackwork. · _{Aug 31 at 3:08pm}

Given the scuttlebutt which is floating around about long-term DVD degradation, I hope you've backed up your viewing treasures.

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Just wait until the Really Ultimate Version (tm), where the lightsabers will be replaced by walkie-talkies!

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James Lileks: It's like a 12-hour biography of Hitler where he gets exonerated at the end because he made an honest woman of Eva and was nice to his dog. Feh. · _{Aug 31 at 8:33pm}

Not to mention his implementation of Universal Healthcare.

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Aaron Miller

I'm fairly certain I'm the youngest person on Earth who understands that reference. Duck Soup is actually part of my DVD collection, alongside the complete Star Wars series.

I hate to be a nitpicker, but your understanding is incomplete, since Captain Spaulding (and the elephant joke) appeared in Animal Crackers, not Duck Soup.

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Western Chauvinist: I wouldn't mind if Lucas re-shot all the dialogue scene of the first three (as in the most recent three) with real actors. And real dialogue.

I wouldn't mind if the last 4 movies in the series got remade with a director who knew how to pick a better writer and knew how to direct actors. For crying out loud! Some of those were top notch actors he turned into anime characters! · _{Aug 31 at 10:49pm}

Coming to a theater near you in 2015 - the Star Wars reboot!

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Aaron Miller

I'm fairly certain I'm the youngest person on Earth who understands that reference. Duck Soup is actually part of my DVD collection, alongside the complete Star Wars series.

I hate to be a nitpicker, but your understanding is incomplete, since Captain Spaulding (and the elephant joke) appeared in Animal Crackers, not Duck Soup.

Oy! Thanks for the correction. I own both, along with Horse Feathers. It's obviously been too long since I've watched them.

Groucho Marx, the master of puns.

Secretary taking dictation: "Do you want that last part in brackets?"

Groucho: "No. It will never make it there in brackets. Put it in a box."